Here are some things I’m tired of.

I’m tired of hearing from Democrats and their fellow travelers who assure us that Joe Biden is a capable president who will run again and win. Biden clearly is in serious cognitive decline. It isn’t the same Biden gaffes we’ve endured for years. Now at public events he appears lost looking for people who are not there. At a time when the United States is confronted with challenges from China, Russia, and a war in the Ukraine we need to have a President fully in control of the situation.

I find the WOKE crowd or whatever they are to be especially tiring. First, they have managed to bastardize a simple clearly understood word. For me “woke” will always be the past tense of wake and means to have emerged or caused to emerge from a state of sleep. Now I find that the Cambridge Dictionary defines woke as of or relating to a liberal progressive orthodoxy, especially promoting inclusive policies or ideologies that welcome or embrace ethnic, racial, or sexual minorities.

I think that woke words and definitions are seen by those who consider themselves “woke” as a way of keeping the non-woke out of the conversation as they go about redefining society before our very eyes.

A definition that clearly illustrates the remaking of our language is the definition, of woman in the Cambridge Dictionary now defined as “an adult who lives and identifies as female although they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.” Similarly male is defined as “an adult who lives and identifies as a male though they may have been said to have been a different sex at birth.”

I’m also tired of being called a “climate change denier” by the followers of the “Church of Climate Change” when you don’t agree with every last opinion, they hold on climate change. I, and many others like me, believe in climate change as a continuous process sometimes global in nature and at other times regional. Unlike them I’m not sure of the impact that mankind has had on the climate, if any. Nor do I see the current cycle of climate change being followed by a world ending climatic catastrophe.

I recently came across instructions on how firm believers in climate change can shoot down their denier friends. They were told that if your denier friend tells you that most scientists dispute the reality of human caused climate change to respond that there is almost universal agreement among scientists that climate change is a reality.

That is simply not true. There is some agreement among scientists from paleontologists to epidemiologists that man-made climate change is occurring but among meteorologists and weather scientists who actually study the weather the more prevalent opinion is that the current period of climate change is probably not unusual. Also, Bill Nye, the Science Guy and climate change Garu, is a mechanical engineer who probably knows as much about the weather as any of us.

I’m tired of our state and federal governments telling us that we have to depend on untried and expensive technology to save the world. The proposed federal pollution standards that would go into effect in 2027 are designed to ensure that 67 percent of sales of new light-duty passenger vehicles, from sedans to pickup trucks, must be electric by 2032. Currently the average cost of an internal combustion engine powered car is $27,000 while the average price of an electric vehicle is $61,000 meaning that many of us may have to start walking when the time comes to buy a new car after 2032. Perhaps that is what the climate change elites, like John Kerry intend.

This precipitous move to electric vehicles by the “Environmental Protection Agency” added to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s insane ban on gas stoves, gas heat, gas water heaters, and gas dryers will likely have unintended consequences. Imagine an evening in the fall of 2040. Workers all over New York state pull into their garages and plug their electric vehicles into their chargers.

Meanwhile in the basement mom fires up the electric clothes dryer to dry a load of wash and then goes to the kitchen to prepare dinner on the electric range. In the upstairs bathroom their son is taking a shower and the electric water heater comes to life while their daughter plugs in the charger on her laptop.

Demand for power peaks and somewhere in New York’s portion of the power grid a transformer explodes and in a rapidly spreading cascade of failure New York, New England and parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio go dark. It’s happened before but now overly dependent on wind and solar power it likely will be far worse.

Thomas Kirkpatrick Sr. is a Silver Creek resident. Send comments to editorial@observertoday.com